Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Grand Hotel
Castle, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 30 April 1999
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48038, -3.18202
- Cadw reference
- 21702
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Opposite Castle Court, about 100 m SE of junction with Castle Street.
History
Circa 1888. The glazed round arches giving onto the balcony were formerly open.
Exterior
French Renaissance style hotel. Bathstone front (lower levels painted) of 4 storeys. Central 3-window frontispiece with steep pavilion roof with wrought iron cresting; pedimented central windows; frontispiece is advanced at balcony level. Below this, entrance arch with inscription "Grand Hotel", and iron porch.
To each sideof frontispiece, at attic level, three round-arched dormers with ball finials; on top floor 3 windows, below these three round-headed door-windows with glazing above, and bracketed wrought-iron balcony. Doorways with steep pediments to ends.
Reason for designation
Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Offices of Football Association of WalesCommercialunder 1 mi
- 5 Womanby StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Castle ArcadeCommercialunder 1 mi
- Glamorgan Staff ClubRecreationalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.